Maria Antonietta defends himself during his trial The trial that the former French queen Marie Antoinette suffered in 1793 fu farce, like most of those held during the French Revolution, all, from the beginning, outcome for granted, namely the death sentence of the accused. During the hearings the woman [...]

Louis Charles of Bourbon prisoner to the Temple When and how he died Charles Louis de Bourbon, son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, rightful heir to the French throne? The fate of the prince, known as the "child of the Temple", It is one of the greatest enigmas of the past two centuries. Certainly we know that [...]

Fersen in the cartoon Lady Oscar What did the "bel heels", wich was (perhaps) the lover of Marie Antoinette? People like me who as a child did not miss an episode of Lady Oscar, It tends to identify with the beautiful animated cardboard boy and finds it difficult to imagine different from it (you see in the picture [...]

Portrait of Louis XV. The king died of smallpox in 1774 April 1774: during one of the usual hunting near Versailles which has always devoted their spare time, the old king of France, Louis XV felt ill. After three days spent in bed between moans and shooting pains, i [...]

Marie Antoinette hunting Hunting, especially that the fox, It was one of the favorite activities of sovereigns and aristocrats in past centuries; the young King of France, Louis XVI felt towards this discipline a passion even immeasurable, so as not to give up his daily hunt for no reason at all, careless [...]

The famous Jacques-Louis David design that portrays Marie Antoinette to the guillotine What you can see in the photo, It is one of the most celebrated designs of History, namely the sketch in pen executed by Jacques-Louis David in the late morning 16 October 1793, precisely when the cart went the condemned slow [...]

Norma Shearer in "Maria Antonietta", 1938 Although now a bit 'dated (1938), "Maria Antonietta" di W.S.Van Dike II, is still today one of the most famous and beautiful film dedicated to the unfortunate Queen of France guillotined during the French Revolution. of film, strictly black and white, two aspects, probably, affect above all [...]

Norma Shearer plays Marie Antoinette in the film of the 1938 In the video (da youtube.com) I've added to the bottom of the post you can see the final scene of the famous movie 1938 Maria Antonietta, the execution of the former Queen of France, interpreted by Norma Shearer, Oscar nomination for the role. Despite the undisputed value of the film and [...]

Marie Antoinette and Fersen meet for the first time during a masked ball (by film "Marie Antoinette") It is not known if the Queen of France Marie Antoinette and the Swedish Count Fersen have had a real relationship, understood even in a fleshly sense, but certainly their bond [...]

Maria Antonietta (Kirsten Dunst) e Fersen (Jamie Dornan) in "Marie Antoinette" (2006) Personally, I was expecting much more from the Sofia Coppola film Marie Antoinette, a film that, in my opinion, not only he does not add anything to the figure of Maria Antonietta, ma, Unlike, He insists on the hackneyed and trite vision of a woman [...]